Plato Quotes about Wine

All Plato Quotes Acting Affection Age Anxiety Army Art Atheism Atheist Beauty Belief Blame Change Character Children Community Constitution Country Creation Dance Dancing Darkness Death Deception Democracy Design Desire Destiny Discipline Drinking Dying Earth Education Effort Evil Excellence Exercise Failing Fear Of Death Feelings Fighting Freedom Giving God Gold Grace Greatness Greek Harmony Hate Health Heart Heaven Honesty Honor Human Nature Humanity Ignorance Imagination Immortality Injury Injustice Inspiration Inspirational Integrity Judging Justice Kindness Knowledge Language Leadership Learning Liberty Life Life And Death Love Lust Lying Madness Math Mathematics Memories Military Moderation Money Muse Music Office Pain Parenting Passion Past Perfection Persuasion Philosophy Pleasure Poetry Politics Poverty Praise Pride Probability Psychology Purpose Quality Reality Religion Reputation Responsibility Running School Science Simplicity Sin Singing Sleep Son Soul Sports Spring Study Success Suffering Teaching Temperance Train Training Truth Understanding Unity Victory Virtue Vision War Water Wealth Wine quotes Winning Wisdom Wit Work Writing Youth

There is truth in wine and children

Plato

Children, Wine

Plato (1989). “Symposium”, p.69, Hackett Publishing

Wine fills the heart with courage.

Plato

Heart, Wine

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

Plato

Wine, Men, Dinner

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

Plato

Wine, Men, Granted

And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

Plato

Drinking, Wine, Lovers

Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.1613, Catholic Way Publishing

What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?

Plato

Taken, Wine, Character

Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.2694, Delphi Classics

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

Plato

Wine, Boys, Fire

Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.

Plato

Teaching, Wine, Exercise